Quicksilver 3rd HD issues

[Christopher]

Hey, my iMac G4 gave up the ghost for some reason and I'm not about to fix it right now so I'm putting the 80GB drive inside my quicksilver which already has 2 hard drives. I thought I'd throw it in the zip drive slow since it's ATA. I set the hard drive to slave since the dvd drive is master. All is well? Not quite, it cancels out both devices on that bus, so I don't have use of my dvd drive or the 3rd drive I put in. What gives?

It's a 733MHz quicksilver with 1.25GB of ram running tiger. Other two drives are seagate somethings, but this drive is a Seagate Barracuda IV, if that means anything.

 

[phreakout]

Try setting the jumpers on the back of both drives to CS (cable select).

Also, take the RAM down from 1.25GB to say 512MB, if possible. Sometimes OSX will do funky things when you put the RAM at the maximum amount.

Try even zapping the PRAM, as this will even reset settings of what hardware was previously attached.

73s de Phreakout. :rambo:

 

[Christopher]

Switching both to cable select worked. Which is strange because I've always been told that optical drive buses on mac's weren't "smart" enough to know which is which and label them as such.

 

[PowerPup]

Hmm... That is weird. I have my Sawtooth G4 maxed out with three HDs and it's DVD drive, Everything worked fine. I know yours is a quicksilver, but they're not that far apart.

I have had some issues with certain PCs (glitchy BIOS I guess) where if I did not have the master/slave settings in the right order, one wouldn't be detected or it would make the post process take and extremely long time. So maybe you could switch your DVD to slave and the new HD to master and see what happens.

Hope this helps.

PowerPup.

 

[Christopher]

I guess every machine is different.

Since the addition of the 3rd drive, it's been noticeably warmer in my room which is nice because the heating for the house isn't so great upstairs and having single digit temps at the same time sort of make it cold.